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Girlvinyl

I think some of you faggots are confused about what goes down here
We're not here to encourage success, we're here to mock failure
Get that hugbox shit out of here; there are plenty of other places for it

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EDF Hero

If you have learned drawing from smth like comics or manga(or anything that's much of an abstraction from reality) and have adapted such a style you have to start from scratch again and relearn drawing.
It's less work than it sounds though and once you have the base you can go back to draw animu and apply your new knowledge.

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Dramacrat

@katerz05
I thought the character was a guy at first. It's OK if that's what you wanted, but expect people to be confused. Otherwise find and collect photo references of what you want her to look like.
Also get references for the anatomy, it's all over the place and there are serious errors, like her hand being bigger than her face in the 2nd picture.
Lastly, pay attention to form and especially how clothes wrap around the body. That will give your drawings more believability.

I don't know what to tell you about colouring, I'm not into the rainbow vomit stuff. You could look up legit designers who work with such colours and figure out how to make them better but not so all over the place.

Oh and practice life/realistic drawing as much as you can, falling into the "it's my style!" excuse will only harm you in the long run. This entire subforum has more than enough examples of THAT.

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EDF Hero

There is a lot more wrong with these but I don't know enough about art to figure out exactly how to put them into words.

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Then I will

The face is way too masculine. She looks, as others have said, like a guy. A female face is not usually so angular. It's usually soft and has fewer ridges, while a male face has mare ridges and is far more angular.

Her left lower arm is way too stubby as well as the top part of the arm. Looks like she chopped off a childs arm and tried sticking it to her own body. The right arm looks weird. her fingers are the size of her face. Her hand itself? The size of my computer screen. Tone it down and make them smaller.

The lining itself is so fucking wiggly.

The orange cloak with the orange wings is fucking horrible and makes her look ultra skinny. That said, her shoulders are still way too big while her hips are too small. Again, helps with making her look male.

The legs also look like they were placed there with no knowledge of how the transition from torso to leg actually works, making it look messy.

Also, I know the whole "lel more line weight on the outside while inside has a lighter line weight!" thing is used a lot on deviantart but it just looks messy when not done right. When done as you have it here it's just distracting and useless as it adds nothing to the picture.

Also, and yes it's being stated again. That colour palette is fucking horrible. Neon when in large doses, especially on characters, needs to be shot, stomped, and fucking nuked it's so fucking horrible. It hurts the eyes and causes the person to run from the picture instead of stay and appreciate it.

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EDF Hero

The older one hides better that the user is just copying a stylization than actually knowing what they do.
The shoulders and the elbow in the newer one pretty much give it away, heck the entire fuckin shirt.

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Pilot

This isn't really a "Draw this again" meme more like a before or after. I just want to get your input on my progress .
This was made 2 months ago.
While this was made recently.
I'd be very open to criticisms to further improve my work. And yes i know the wings are shit.